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LOS ANGELES, California - LAX just broke a record. L.A. is experiencing a freak spring heat wave. The beach is as hot as the valley and foothills.

The asphalt jungle is getting squishy. It was so hot in Pasadena yesterday (93 degrees) that there was no sense in running to the beach. But the beach is now the same temperature. This never happens.

Los Angeles County (laalmanac.com)

It's always at least ten degrees cooler on the coast no matter how miserable it is inland in the desert City of Angels. That's why tourists clear out of town and end up on the Venice Boardwalk and Santa Monica Pier, Hermosa and Malibu.

What's the cause? Sure there's a red blip on the Doppler 5000 radar weather satellite map, but the larger reason is climate chaos. Of course there is global warming; no one denies that. What some deny is whether or not humans are causing it. We aren't helping.

If all the planets in our solar system -- and one of featured writers thinks there are more than 30 -- are heating up, is it a good idea to keep pouring heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere? Right wing readers might say, "A volcano puts up more trouble in the sky than we do!" but the fact remains: We have to do something about it. The fake answer of trading "carbon credits" is capitalist exploitation progressives have been tricked into backing. Carbon is not the problem. Carbon is mild and recycles.

We need to worry about methane (from animal raising and slaughter, deforestation (from animal raising and slaughter), diesel fumes (from transporting animals to raise and slaughter them), from pollution (a result of industrial ranching and industrialization in general). There is a lot we can do! A lot needs to be done. We can't gag sincere right-wing men. The Koch Brothers are paying good money to muddy the waters, pay off scientists to stir up doubts and delay action, like they did historically with nicotine and cigarettes. We now say "everyone knew" but then why were we so slow to act to curb cancer and other diseases? Industry paid to keep the debate raging in the face of overwhelming evidence and common sense. The same thing is happening right now.

The hottest day ever, L.A. 2010 (Los Angeles Times) Ever notice that right-leaning people say, "The red line on the graph doesn't go only up (incline), so 'global warming' must be a fantasy!"? A peak temp was in 2010, yet, we have climate chaos. Colorado has a blizzard today. We have climate chaos. Average temp will go up AND go down. But because is TRENDING up, we have warming, we have change, we have climate chaos:

(Henry Chu/LATimes.com) In the Himalayas ["the roof of the world"], a climate-change calamity builds. High in the Himalayas, above this peaceful valley where farmers till a
patchwork of emerald-green fields, an icy lake fed by melting glaciers
waits to become a "tsunami from the sky." The lake is swollen
dangerously past normal levels, thanks to the global warming that is
causing the glaciers to retreat at record speed. But no one knows when
the tipping point will come... More

(Scott Gold) "Glaciers are past 'point of no return'" read the front page story of the [paper version of the] Los Angeles Times yesterday (May 13, 2014).

A slow-motion and irreversible collapse of a massive cluster of
glaciers in Antarctica has begun. And it could cause sea levels to rise
across the planet by another 4 feet within 200 years, scientists
concluded in two studies released Monday.

Researchers had
previously estimated that the cluster in the Amundsen Sea region of the
West Antarctic Ice Sheet would last for thousands of years despite
global climate change. But the new studies found that the loss is
underway now as warming ocean water melts away the base of the ice
shelf, and it is occurring far more rapidly than scientists expected.

The
warming water is tied to several environmental phenomena, including a
warming of the planet driven by emissions from human activity and
depleted ozone that has changed wind patterns in the area, the studies
found. More + VIDEO

"I'm just one person out of 7 billion+!" This planet can sustain twice as many people as we have now, but it cannot keep going with half as many IF we keep going like this. Our waste and the incentives capitalism offers us ruin. Each of us can turn around.

What Sakka (Indra, Archangel Michael) sees from space -- an environment in decline.

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Climate Change?

Nearby space is our environment

For years, Democracy Now! has been closely following the issues of global
warming and climate chaos. It has reported live from U.N.
Climate Change Conferences in Warsaw, Doha, Durban, Cancún, and
Copenhagen. They attended the World Peoples’ Summit on
Climate Change hosted by Bolivia in 2010. They interviewed many of
the world’s top scientists, policy makers, activists, academics, and
indigenous leaders who focus on these issues.

We agree with Edgar Cayce (reborn as David Wilcock, divinecosmos.com) and [the reluctant prophet] Stephen Quayle (stevequayle.com) that the solar system is heating up. But that means the Earth is, too. Moreover, we are making it worse! The effect of 7 billion humans and countless earthlings (animals, insects, sea creatures, unseen beings, ET visitors, titans, devas, angels, "demons," reptilians, Greys, etc.) is contributing. And even if the human impact were negligible, we are guilty of inaction for not doing something when something could be done to save this world.

We must follow the movement to save the planet locally and globally, environmentally and atmospherically (in space), to directly confront the root causes of the problem,
advocate for justice, and provide sustainable alternatives.

Climate chaos caused by first world industries leads to drought, starvation, slavery, sex trafficking, and early death in the third world. Save people! (BuddhistGlobalRelief.org).

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